Dresden (dpa/sn) - Saxony's Transport Minister Martin Dulig (SPD) has seen the 9-euro ticket as a success and has spoken out in favor of a follow-up solution. However, the discussion should not be reduced to the ticket alone, he said on Tuesday in Dresden. Rather, there must be an overall package to strengthen local public transport.
The minister reminded that the transport companies had lost a lot of revenue due to the corona pandemic and had only survived since then thanks to rescue packages. Then there are the higher energy prices. He doesn't want a solution in which there is a successor to the 9-euro ticket, but connections still have to be abandoned.
"I expect the federal government to keep the agreement to finance additional regionalization funds for the increased costs," said Dulig. Regionalization funds are funds that the federal government makes available to the states each year to finance local rail passenger transport.
